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    Of Mice and Men Crooks

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    Of Mice and Men – Chapter Four - Crooks Essay Crooks is a literate black man who tends horses on the ranch. He has long been the victim of oppressive violence and prejudice and has retired behind a facade of aloofness and reserve‚ his natural personality deadened and suppressed by years of antagonism. Crooks is the only black man in the novel. He has a cynical intelligence and a contemptuous demeanor that he uses to prevent others from inevitably excluding him because of his race. This sign of intelligence

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    Crooks Of Mice and Men

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    OF MICE AND MEN QUOTES & NOTES ^_^ George Milton -“I been mean‚ ain’t I?” --> George is a good friend to Lennie. He protects him and does what is necessary to keep him out of trouble. -“If I was alone I could live so easy” --> Lennie is a burden to George -“I want you to stay with me‚ Lennie” –George --> conveys Georges loneliness Lennie Small -“paws”  animalistic quality; bear -“all you can ever remember is them rabbits” –George.  Lennie represents idealism and optimism in the American

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    novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck some characters‚ when given the opportunity exercise their power over others to manipulate them. The characters that use their power to manipulate other characters is Crooks‚ Carlson and Curley’s wife. Each character in Of Mice and Men have some type of power‚ some are not as noticeable as Crooks’s power to manipulate others. Crooks is not a character the book tells a lot about but it does show the reader what kind of person he is. In the book Crooks tries to

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    Of Mice And Men: Crooks

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    Aside from the obviouse‚ George and Lenie‚ Crooks played an important role in‚ Of Mice and men by John Stienbeck. Crooks is thought of as the lowest rank on the ranch. He is looking for companions but he goes about it in an around about way. He is a very smart man but no one on the ranch bothers to listen to him because he is black. Crooks is a very lonely and grumpy old man. He has a croked back were a horse kiked him. He is the stable buck on the ranch but he usally keeps to imself and stays in

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    Crooks and Lennie

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    the novel " of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck‚ Lennie and Crooks experience discrimination‚ Lennie experiences discrimination because of foolish‚ Crook experiences discrimination because he is black; they all have deformity‚ Lennie is a mentally disabled man and Crooks have rheumatism. First‚ Lennie and Crooks experience discrimination because of foolish and racial discrimination. For example‚ in chapters‚George told him lots of time that there should be Lennie hand in‚ but Lennie still can’t remember

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    How Crooks is presented in Of Mice and Men Our first proper introduction to Crooks is at the beginning of Chapter 4 when Lennie sees Crooks’ light on when looking at his puppy and goes to investigate. This is a very significant point in the novel because it is the first real point of contact that any of the white ranch hands‚ maybe apart from Slim‚ have had a proper conversation with him apart from during work‚ when he is referred to as a “nigger”. This is hinted at when Crooks says to Lennie

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    Re-creations – Taking a text and turning it into another Write a monologue using a chosen character from “Of Mice and Men”. Crooks I like the new guys. George is a nice fella‚ an’ so is Lennie. Lennie is the only fella’ I have power over in this ranch‚ and I like it because imma’ black guy and he’s a white guy. Like the other night when all the boys went to town and it were just me and Lennie. I said “s’pose George went into town tonight and you never heard of him no more”. I could tell that the

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    rays. Johns Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men showcases the dreams of two men who traveled through the farm lands of Central California of the late 1930s. Lennie’s an unpredictable man as a result by not knowing how to make decisions‚ not knowing his own strength‚ and not knowing how to control his temper. The first way Lennie’s an unpredictable man is by the decisions he makes. Lennie was feeling the woman’s hair admiring her soft silky hair. The girl asked Lennie to stop and the woman then started

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    Crooks in of Mice and Men

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    Crooks is symbolic of a lot - he is lonely. He has no one for him. He is segregated against. He has only a few possessions‚ each of which means the world to him. He is one of the only educated ones on the farm‚ and yet this means nothing. He is always weary of the future. Crooks to represent racism and symbolize the marginalization of the black community occurring at the time in which the novel is set. Crooks’ is significant as he provides an insight into the reality of the American

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    Lennie of Mice and Men

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    people’s feelings may not have that innocence. Lennie if Of Mice and Men by George Stienbeck is the biggest kid around. Problem with him being a so called kid is that he’s actually a rather large grown man. People say he should be locked up in a looney house‚ he’s never going to be of any use or do well in life. Well should he? He doesn’t mean any harm. Lennie in this novel always acts like a child and never means the harm that he accidently causes. Lennie is a grown man but really just a child at heart

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